So, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft was very close to take over Nokia, but that the talks eventually broke down, probably beyond repair - at least for now. The reasons the talks broke down illustrate something that I have repeatedly tried to make clear for a long time now: Nokia isn't doing well.

And as we just learned Microsoft and Nokia are in talks about a buy out since a year or so now.

Huawei's interest just became public NOW. Who knows how long they try to negotiate behind private walls to ... buy out Nokia. A year?

Also there is the Lenovo Nokia buy out case which became public a few months ago. Be sure that before it became public private talks where going on.

So, who do you tell nothing like that is going on for a long long time now? Its just that Nokia is a high risk. Just like Microsoft wrote in his reasoning why negotiation failed. Nokia is falling so fast that when you buy out today its worth 1/10 of what you payed tomorrow.